I look forward to your return with non-stupid posts

 

Sure

 

damn a double dog dare... (a christmas story)

 

yea dude no one backs down from a double dog dare and lives to tell the story.

 

Im afraid of doggies!!



Not quite the highest level dare, so not quite strong enough yet!!



" From David Luther Woodward; a related question came from Jim Powers: “While in North Georgia last Christmas I saw—on the side of a delivery truck—an advertisement that included the phrase: ‘I double-dog dare you!’ I have not seen this since I was a child, when we used this as a counter-dare to up the ante when something dared appeared to be particularly daunting. Have you heard this, and do you have any opinions from whence it came?”



[A] A. Like so much slang, the phrase isn’t that well recorded and so it’s hard to pin down its origins. It’s certainly an American expression, though, and one that’s still quite common.



Chapman’s Dictionary of American Slang mentions it and dates it carefully as being current at least as far back as the 1940s. Many subscribers to this newsletter have long memories, so I’ve no doubt that they could take it back further without much effort. Jonathon Green, in the Cassell Dictionary of Slang, says it’s nineteenth century. He’s certainly right, since it’s listed in a book of 1896, The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought by Alexander F Chamberlain.



Mr Chamberlain also mentions several other forms. As well as the immemorial I dare you, he gives I dog dare you, I double dog dare you, I black dog dare you, and the ultimate challenge that must surely have been impossible to pass up without appearing totally chicken, I double black dog dare you. "



See?

 

 

do we still have the ignore user option?

 

I dont think so. I didn't install some of the little hacks after the meltdown

 

I double black dog dare you to use it!

 

Oh no you just didn't.



you bastard, I'm gonna, I'm gonna..... damn it.